Most people think that the adjective “senior” is earned as a function of time and raw output.
I have been here five years. I am one of the most productive people on the team.
Yes, those things matter. But something else matters even more: observable behavior.
It is what people see you doing in real time, in your meetings, and in the messy middle of an incident, in the documents you write. And it’s in the things you do when nobody told you to do them.
When your actions don’t match the description of “senior,” you will remain at your current level, no matter how smart you are or how hard you work.
Today, I am going to hand you a clear lens on the behavior others are watching

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